immigration-induced skill-mix changes between 1860 and 1930. We find that capital began as a q-complement for skilled and … allowed the U.S. economy to absorb the large wave of less-skilled immigration with a modest decline in less-skilled relative …

somewhat surprising as the exceptional growth in the Irish economy occurred from 1994 on. We look to immigration as being a … simulation suggests that immigration did indeed reduce earnings inequality. This result is an interesting corollary to work from … the US that shows the immigration of unskilled workers increasing earnings inequality. …

This paper analyses the effects of immigration on waiting times in the National Health Service (NHS) in England …. Linking administrative records from the Hospital Episode Statistics (2003-2012) with immigration data drawn from the UK Labour … Force Survey, we find that immigration reduced waiting times for outpatient referrals and did not have significant effects …

Civil war in Syria, which started in March 2011, has led to a massive wave of forced immigration from the Northern … immigration has considerably affected the employment outcomes of natives, while its impact on wage outcomes has been negligible …

We analyze the impact of immigration on voting. Using Italian municipality data and IV estimation strategy, we find … that immigration generates a sizable causal increase in votes for the centre-right coalition, which has a political … platform less favorable to immigrants. Additional findings are: big cities behave differently, with no impact of immigration on …

This paper investigates the relationship between immigration and the size of the informal or underground economy. Using … regional variation for the Spanish provinces we find that the massive immigration wave between 2000 and 2009 is highly … substantially reduced the number of illegal workers but did not affect the relationship between immigration and informality. …